All Screen articles in 10 June 2005
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Italian box office posts huge slump in May
Italy's box office has slumped a massive 35% in May, compared tothe same month last year.Thedrop comes as Kingdom of Heaven and Star WarsEpisode 3: Revengeof the Sith, which have respectively grossed $8,664,419 and $8,419,105 todate, failed to match the success of last year's Troy and The DayAfter Tomorrow, which ...
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Searchlight, DNA, BBC Films team on History
Fox Searchlight Pictures,DNA Films and BBC Films are partnering up on an adaptation of Alan Bennett'sOlivier Award winning coming-of-age play The History Boys.The project is set to beginfilming in the UK in July and will reunite the play's director Nicholas Hytnerwith key cast members including Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison, Frances ...
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Singapore's Cathay acquires 40 pictures at Cannes
Singapore distributor Cathayhas acquired a record 40 titles at this year's Cannes Film Festival, includingDuncan Tucker's road movie Transamerica,Hans Canosa's drama Conversations withOther Women in split screen format and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's film noir Invisible Waves.Cathay has also bought therights to Kim Ki Duk's The Bow andKim Yong-Gyun's The Red Shoes ...
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Alquimia set 4 Dances with Ripoll
Spain's Alquimia Cinema is preparing a new English-languagefeature from Tortilla Soup director Maria Ripoll called 4 Dances.The tale revolves around the magical imaginings of anautistic teenager and her relationships with her dancer brother and the youngman he hires to care for her. Casting is underway in Spain and the UK ...
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Event Horizon (L'Orizzonte Degli Eventi)
Dir:Daniele Vicari. Italy. 2005. 114mins.It's a nice idea for a film: take Italy's highest mountainoutside the Alps - the Gran Sasso - and come up with a storyline that links thehi-tech world below the mountain (which hosts the Gran Sasso National Laboratory,the world's largest underground laboratory for research into particle ...
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Meyer takes sole control of Lions Gate International, hires Denton
In a major restructure, Lions Gate International president NicolasMeyer has assumed sole control of the division and created two key executivepositions.Stephanie Denton has been named president of film sales for LionsGate Films International and will head up theatrical sales, while CraigCegielski oversees the expanding television slate as vice president ofprogramming ...
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Cameras roll in Uganda on Last King Of Scotland
Principal photography starts in Uganda tomorrow (June 11) on The Last King OfScotland starring Forest Whitaker as Ugandandictator Idi Amin. The project was developed by FilmFour, is financed by bothFilmFour and DNA, and will be distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures andTwentieth Century Fox International.James McAvoy will appear opposite Whitaker as ...
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The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl In 3D
Dir. Robert Rodriguez.US. 2005. 94mins.A mildly engaging children's morality tale, RobertRodriguez's The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl In 3D is the kind offilm that parents should be happy to let their kids see but which likely provetoo undemanding for anyone beyond its target age group.While the digital specialeffects are inventive ...
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Touching The Void producer drafts in Day
Leading UK televisionproduction outfit Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) has appointed Elinor Day,the former deputy head of production at FilmFour, to head up a new feature filmdivision specialising in documentaries and docu-hybrids.Factual specialist DSPenjoyed huge critical and box office success recently with theatricaldocumentary Touching The Void, which won a BAFTA for ...
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Paris Cinema launches festival programme
Plans for the city's third Paris Cinema festival (June29-July 12) were unveiled today by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and ConstantinCosta-Gavras, who will be presiding over the event.Thisyear's festival, which was created by city hall after Delanoe becamedissatisfied with the now rival event, the Paris Film Festival, boasts no lessthan 400 ...
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Oz's Roadshow, Becker unveil Cannes deals
RoadshowRoadshow has joined the list of buyers attached to RomanPolanski's unfinished version of the Dickens classic Oliver Twist, oneof a trio of titles Australia's biggest independent theatrical distributor hasacquired from Summit Entertainment.Picked up from script is Tony Gilroy's directorial debut,Michael Clayton, regarded by managing director Joel Pearlman as aparticularly hot ...
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Indian industry speaks out against film smoking ban
Senior figures in the Indian film industry havespoken out against the government's plan to ban smoking scenes in films.Lastweek, the Indian government announced it would ban all scenes showing smokingor cigarette packs in films and TV programmes. The new law will apply to bothIndian films and to foreign films released ...
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Metrodome snaps up McGuckian's Rag Tale
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired Mary McGuckian'ssatire Rag Tale which it plans to release in September/ October2005.Rag Tale chronicles a week in the life of atabloid newspaper in contemporary London. Its tyrannical chairman andobsequious editor (who also happens to be sleeping with the chairman's wife)battle for political supremacy, using staff ...
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Basner confirmed as Weinsteins' international president
One day after his abruptdeparture from Focus Features [Screendaily, June 7], Glen Basner has been namedpresident of international at The Weinstein Company.Basner, who worked for DavidLinde for a decade at Good Machine International and Focus Features, startswork immediately for the Weinsteins at Miramax and The Weinstein Company. Hewill begin working ...
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Mr & Mrs Smith land in UK, Australia, Mexico, Brazil
Star Wars: Episode III has dominated the international landscape for thepast month but does it have the clout to see off a concerted challenge from Mr& Mrs Smith'Either way Fox Internationalexecutives won't mind - the company handles Episode III and handles some international rights for Mr& Mrs Smith for New ...
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UK censor's annual report reveals thinking behind ratings
UK censor the BBFC hasrevealed some of the thinking behind its ratings decisions in its annual reportfor 2004, which is published this month.A movie can be violent andgory, but still escape a high rating, depending on its genre. British comedyhorror Shaun Of The Dead included decapitations, gunshot wounds and theuse ...
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IMAX enters Turkey in deal with AFM Cinemas
IMAX Corporationand leading Turkish exhibitor AFM Cinemas have struck a deal to open the firstIMAX theatre in Istanbul. An IMAX MPXtheatre system will be retrofitted at the eight-screen AFM Maltepe multiplexlater this month and is expected to open in early July. The launch ispart of a previously announced deal with ...
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Norton's Illusionist wraps in Prague
Director Neil Burger and producer Cathy Schulman have wrapped productionon The Illusionist after 46 days ofshooting in various locations in the Czech Republic.Burger (Interview With The Assassin) wrote the screenplay based onSteven Millhauser's short story EisenheimThe Illusionist. Shot by Dick Pope (VeraDrake), the film stars Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica ...
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Pusan festival unveils expansion plans
The Pusan InternationalFilm Festival has unveiled a range of special events for its tenth anniversaryedition to be held in October, including an inaugural Asian Film Academy (AFA)modeled after the Berlinale Talent Campus and Sundance's Filmmakers Lab.Festival director KimDong-ho also says that PIFF will double its number of participating theatresfrom 16 ...
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Chinese director Ning comes into Lau's Focus
China's Ning Hao has been selected as the sixth director toparticipate in the regional film project, Focus: First Cuts, which was launchedin March by Hong Kong star Andy Lau's Focus Films and Star Chinese Movies. Focusalso announced that it will co-produce Ning's as-yet-untitled film withBeijing-based Concord Creation International. The film, ...